Grease (1978) more movies like this

directed by Randal Kleiser
featuring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden

"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs - Warren Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny ...

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Mildred Pierce (1945) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth

Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her true love stolen away by that same daughter. Ranald ...

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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), Biegler accepts the case of one Lt. Manion (Ben ...

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Cover Girl (1944) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Otto Kruger, Eve Arden

Thanks to its Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg score and the luminescence of stars Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, Cover Girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years. In truth, the film has a banal and predictable premise: a chorus girl (Hayworth) is given a chance for stardom by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger), who years earlier ...

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Tea for Two (1950) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Patrice Wymore, Billy De Wolfe

Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as Nanette, a Roaring '20s Jazz Baby with showbiz aspirations. Nanette offers to put up $25,000 if producer Billy DeWolfe will star her in a Broadway show. The girl's wealthy, and stingy uncle S.Z. ...

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Night and Day (1946) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Cary Grant, John Alvin, Alexis Smith, Eve Arden, Herman Bing, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman, Paul Cavanagh, Dorothy Malone, Tom D'Andrea

Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood wag came up with a potential story angle: "How does the S.O.B. make his second million dollars?" By the time the Porter biopic Night and Day was released, the three-person scriptwriting team still hadn ...

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Song of Scheherazade (1947) more movies like this

directed by Walter Reisch
featuring Patricia Alphin, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed, William Brooks

Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes liberal poetic license with the truth. Jeanne-Pierre Aumont stars as Nicky, a Naval Academy cadet assigned to a vessel undergoing a world cruise. On shore leave in Morocco, Nicky goes in search of a piano intending to pursue ...

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My Dream Is Yours (1949) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Doris Day, Jack Carson, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden

My Dream Is Yours is a Technicolor remake of the jaunty 1934 Warner Bros. musical Twenty Million Sweethearts. But there's a significant difference here: whereas in the earlier film singing-waiter Dick Powell was turned into a crooning idol, in the remake it is Doris Day who is catapulted to stardom. Jack Carson (who was reportedly romantically ...

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Under the Rainbow (1981) more movies like this

directed by Steve Rash
featuring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Billy Barty, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher

In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups of midgets, secret agents, and Nazi and Japanese spies. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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The Strongest Man in the World (1975) more movies like this

directed by Vincent McEveety
featuring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase human strength . By accident, he discovers that, ...

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My Reputation (1946) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Bernhardt
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden, Lucile Watson, Warner Anderson, John Ridgely

A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death of her husband, and with her sons away at school, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is lonely and out of sorts -- and uninterested in the potential suitors her mother, Mrs. Kimball (Lucile Watson), chooses for her. Jessica ...

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The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) more movies like this

directed by Norman Z. McLeod
featuring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden

Danny Kaye's The Kid From Brooklyn is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way (1936), with music and Technicolor added to the proceedings. Kaye is cast as timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan, who through a fluke knocks out prizefighting champion Speed McFarlane (Steve Cochran). Sensing a swell publicity angle, McFarlane's ...

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Three Husbands (1950) more movies like this

directed by Irving G. Reis
featuring Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick

Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving letters to the husbands accusing their wives of having had affairs with him. Although the 1949 hit was done as a dramatic treatise on the reactions of the wives to the revelations, this movie is played strictly for laughs as the ...

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One Touch of Venus (1948) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan

The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker) is a window dresser at a large department store; he's become especially fond of one of his mannequins who looks like the sort of girl he'd like to meet, and one night he impulsively gives the dummy a kiss. To his tremendous ...

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The Lady Wants Mink (1953) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Hussey, Eve Arden, William Demarest, Gene Lockhart

In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a reality. Unfortunately her husband does not have enough money for such a luxury. Being a resourceful lass, the wife decides the only viable alternative is to raise her own mink. Unfortunately, her project doesn't set well with ...

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Whiplash (1948) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Seiler
featuring Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn

In this drama, a California artist abandons his work to become a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married nightclub singer. Her husband was a fighter, but suffered a crippling accident in the ring and was unable to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming the world champion. The husband decides to live out his dream through the ...

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Change of Heart (1943) more movies like this

directed by Albert Rogell
featuring John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Gail Patrick, Eve Arden, Dorothy Dandridge, Melville Cooper

Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual Hit Parade extravaganzas since 1941, but only the 1943 edition truly hit the bullseye. The plot, wherein fading songwriter John Carroll steals a tune from aspiring composer Susan Hayward, was used in several other Republic ...

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